Cortavo has undertaken a
full-scale infrastructure refresh spanning May to July of 2021. Cortavo's
Engineering Leads Peter Miles and Paul Coad partnered with Tom Lasswell, their
Vice President of IT Operations for the project. This internal team completely
upgraded the Cortavo data center hardware supporting their VPS cloud service
and all their hosted customers. Normally, hardware and software refreshes
represent a standard routine of continuous system hygiene required of all data
centers, yet this refresh was far from the routine.
The overhaul included new cabinets, robust servers, the latest Intel® CPUs,
more RAM, better cabling and generous storage hardware. The refresh also
consisted of a host software upgrade to the latest version of VMware and vCloud
Director, widening their storage capacity to operate faster with plenty of extra
capacity for growth and upgrading their internet connectivity. Cortavo's
technology refresh marks the debut of Cortavo Cloud®, its VPS cloud hosting
service offered to small and medium-sized businesses. This refresh fortifies
system capacity to shoulder the demands of Cortavo's new suite of cloud
services, stepping up user experience through several key benefits, including:
- Processing Speeds:
the overhaul replaced the previous processors with the latest generation
of Intel 3.1 GHz processers, thereby raising the clock speed for better
user performance and experience.
- SD-WAN: new
hardware appliances allow for redundant internet connection through a vast
peering network with other major data centers spanning a secure tunnel.
This tunnel connects through a powerful backbone beginning with a major
local hub, producing a short communications pathway with increased speed,
resulting in a better browsing and phone experience with no latency.
Cortavo Cloud's new hosting offers a full, redundant internet connection
leveraging two channels and two different carriers for enhanced speed by prioritizing
channels of least resistance.
- Enhanced Storage:
accompanying a recent enlargement of storage, all primary workloads run on
solid-state drives while nearline storage for archive and retention
resides on advanced Seagate® hard drive storage.
- vCloud Director:
allows for multi-tenancy in a VMware® environment. This environment grants
console entry to view the machine's admin panel as a typical
administrator, thus offering an access level currently unavailable with
other major cloud providers. System security scales with usage and
multi-tenancy, and NSX-TTM Data Center adds a virtualization
layer to the network providing another layer of software protection.
"As many project participants have realized, this is not simply a
routine refresh, but also an upgrade," Tom Lasswell stated. "With
this new infrastructure in place, our Cortavo Cloud VPS customers and users
should experience lightning-fast interactions, proceed with the confidence of
heightened security and enjoy console access seldom granted with big cloud
providers. This is a huge leap forward for our clients and they're going to
feel the difference as they use our services."